But we have seen a whole congregation in tears as they sang that fine old hymn, "Taking the parting hand." Who ever saw a tear start at the bidding of a choir? It was not the pathos of the poetry ...

Watts has been described as “the liberator of English hymnody” as his hymns moved people away from simply singing Old Testament psalms ... of hymnody known as “gospel” emerged.

This tune is one of the best known of all Christian melodies and gets its name, “Old Hundredth”, from its association with Kethe’s translation. A popular hymn for children and well-known by ...

"Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Praise the Lord with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, ...

The Akathist Hymn is a Service of the Orthodox Church that invites the faithful to rejoice in ... The joyful and hope-filled end of Holy Week is remembered in one of the gospel readings taken from the ...

Church sanctuaries still ring out with the two-hundred-year-old hymns of Watts ... In his introduction to The Oxford Book of Christian Verse, Donald Davie asks what sort of language is most ...

The new additions include songs familiar with other Christian faiths such ... Faust and Jan Pinborough. A full list of the ...

A growing chorus says that science has shown free will to be an illusion. But it actually has offered arguments in its favor.

Yet even at their annual worship conference, there’s room for multiple styles of music to declare the stories of the Bible.

“As more releases become available, we will see that we are sharing hymns with other Christian faiths,” Elder Matthew L. Carpenter of the Seventy, a hymnbook advisor, said in a news release.

ACM Awards 2024: See the Complete List of Winners! Old Dominion's Matthew Ramsey Recalls Having Water Turned Off in Band's Early Days as They Win at 2024 ACM Awards Old Dominion's Matthew Ramsey ...